Two-time defending UK-ASCAP Songwriter Of The Year Yusuf Islam is readying his first pop album since '78, and good ol' Cat Power is out to convince you that he's still got the pop chops. Here are the first sounds from the forthcoming record (via iGIF). It's a rip using iRecord (and mildly warbly,particularly come chorus) but totally listenable.
Cat Stevens - "Heaven/Where True Love Grows" (MP3)
Dig that B-section melody! Almost a return to form, we dare say. Here's our favorite Cat Stevens "video," when he was in full form:
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Here's what Yusuf Islam looks like now. Here's what Bud Cort looks like now (years of reconstructive surgery have rendered him a Benry Gale doppelgänger!).
An Other Cup is out 11/14.
